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American Cultural and Historical Information

American Decades is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history.

Diaries, letters and memoirs provide firsthand descriptions of all aspects of the Civil War between 1855 and 1875, including events leading up to the war, the war itself, and events immediately following it.

Digitized letters and diaries authored by women in the United States (and, to a lesser extent, Canada and Mexico) from colonial times to 1950. The collection sheds light on the role and status of women, attitudes to specific historical and personal events, and the general life and times of various historical periods.

Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 123 document projects and archives with 5,100 documents and more than 170,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,700 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

European Cultural and Historical Information

Documenting 200 years of cultural, political, social and historical events, this collection of English news media, including newspapers, newsbooks, proclamations and pamphlets, provides insight into England’s development as a world power.

Large collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence. Spanning more than 300 years, it provides first person accounts of about 500 women from all age groups, ethnicities, and many geographical regions. The materials may be browsed by author, source, year, place, historical events and personal events.

Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series, including political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. Sample topics include: Social History of Britain, World History of Food, History of Political Thought, History of Latin America, History of Islam, History of Iran, Economic History of the United States.

Covers world history from 1450 to the present (excluding Canada and North America -- see America:History and Life). A special emphasis is placed upon the inclusion of English-language journal and book titles published throughout the world.

Provides a comprehensive discussion of Russia's people, politics, economics, religion, and social systems; and is designed to complement the study of comparative politics, world history, geography, literature, arts and culture and world cultures. Entries span the period from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation to the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.